Hi,
First off I apologize if this topic has already been covered. I'm handling a lot of things right now and the cursory forum searches I've had time to do either turn up too many keyword hits or a few results that don't seem to pertain to my problem.
I just got a used D620 from a friend whose company is upgrading their equipment. It's running the A10 bios and appears to have all settings at factory default. I'm trying to install Snow Leopard from an Apple retail installation DVD and everytime I try I get a warning that no bootable device exists. I tested the dvd drive and hdd by installing Windows 7 x64, which completed without issue, so I know that they both work (I wiped the drive afterwards by plugging it into the external dock on my main Win7 box and doing a quick format), but the dvd drive just doesn't recognize the disk.. It's worth noting that when I tried to install CentOS 6.4 it started the installation but hung up on an interactive screen where I was expected to hit enter to move to the next step, but no matter how many times I hit enter, or how long I waited after hitting enter just once, the process never moved past this screen. What is going wrong here? Shouldn't this drive recognize these disks?
The installation guides mention creating a bootable usb key to start the insallation, but they all seem to presume that you don't have an actual oem disk, which I do. Do I still need the usb key to do this? From what my web searches have turned up, if this was an actual Mac laptop the OS should install, but then if I had an actual Mac I wouldn't be here, would I?
Has anybody else encountered this? Can anybody tell me what the problem is? Thanks.